ecology

Crazy ants pose a threat to native wildlife on the Gulf Coast—but a recently discovered fungus keeps their populations in check.

Think twice before shipping Italian stone to your American home.

If it looks like a bass and is terrorizing mosquitofish, it might actually be a robot designed to protect native tadpoles.

Soundscape ecology is a non-invasive method for monitoring ecosystem diversity and health, but process behind it is still very time-consuming.

Local communities hold immense knowledge, and have the advantage of time and history.

A parasitic wasp from Russia could help American ash trees survive the spread of the emerald ash borer.

Little travelers are plentiful in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but their ecological impacts are still a mystery.

A new company co-founded by gene-editing pioneer George Church wants to disrupt climate change and conservation by resurrecting the woolly mammoth.

The Feiruz wood lizard is one of more than a dozen recently found Peruvian creatures.

Spaces for the dead are becoming stepping stones to wildlife discovery.